Bottle-filling apparatus



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P. SIMON. BOTTLE FILLING APPARATUS.

Patented M 1 1895.

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UNITED STATES- P TENT OFFICE.

PAUL SIMON, OF WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-FILLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,596, dated May 21, 1895.

' Application filed January 24,1895- Serial No. 536,004. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL SIMON, of Waltham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Filling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates to a new and improved apparatus for filling bottles, and consists 1n the novel features of construction and relative arrangement of parts fully described in the specification, clearly illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings and the characters marked thereon, which form part of this specification,like characters designating like parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a Vertical longitudinal section of my preferred form of bottle-filler, showing the same in position in a bottle with the valve closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the lower end of the tube broken away and the valve open. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 represent longitudinal sections of a modification.

A represents my improved bottle-filling apparatus, consisting of a suitable tube or casing a. Within this is mounted a fioat-chamher a connected to said tube by means of ribs a Connected to this tube also is a leverchamber, constituting in effect a projecting portion of the tube. This lever-chamber b is connected with the tube by means of screws The tube a and the float-chamber a are both apertured, as at a a in order to provide communication from the chamber b to the float-chamber. Ribs 01, between the floatchamber and the tube form a continuation of the lever-chamber and prevent any liquid from entering the lever-chamber from the sides.

The float-chamber consists practically of a tube a, provided at one end with a plug a apertured for the reception of the valve-stein d. It is also provided with a similar plug a below the lever-chamber apertured to receive the stem of the float. These two plugs, to-

gether with the ribs a keep the liquid from entering the valve-chamber. The float-chamber does not entirely fill the tube, so that a passage-way is formed for the liquid through the tube. Near the upper end of this tube there is. a valveseat d In this seat is mounted a valved provided with a stem (1 that is mounted in the plug of, as stated above. A fioat' f, preferably of alumina, open at its lower end and closed at its upper end, has stems f'f respectively mounted in the plug a and in a lug a secured to the lower part of the float-chamber. This chamber can be so constructed or weighted that it will rise to the proper height to operate the levers hereinafter referred to when the liquid in the bottle has reached a predetermined point.

Pivoted at b in the lever-chamber b is a lever b one arm of which is arranged to engage the valve stem d either by passing through the same, as shown in dotted lines, or in any other way. Pivoted at b in said chamber is a lever b one arm 19 of which rests upon the stem f of the float. The other arm of this lever 19 is formed with a fingerpiece I) that projects through an aperture 5 in the leverchamber. A cam -surface b formed on this arm is arranged to engage the free end of the lever 19 e represents a cap that is placed upon the" top of the tube to connect with any suitable receptacle from which the liquid is to be conducted into the bottle.

0 represents a bottle; a, the liquid.

While I prefer the mechanism shown in Figs. 1 and 2, still the same idea is carried out in the modifications shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and the tube, float-chamber, the valve and float, and the lever-chamber are the same as .in Fig. 1.

Pivoted at s is a lever 8 one arm of which engages the stem of the valve 01 as before.

Pivoted at s is a lever .9 one arm of which rests upon the float-stem. The other arm 8 of said lever is arranged to engage the free end of the lever s.

s is a leaf-spring mounted upon a stud s and bearing upon the side of the lever s opposite to that engaged by the end 3 of the le ver 5 s s are push-buttons suitably mounted in the lever-chamber, 8 arranged to strike the end 5 of said lever and force it against the lever s to raise the latter and depress the valve. This operation also drops the end of the lever 5 down upon the float-stem, it being understood that the float f has a certain amount of play between the plug a and the lug a".

When the push-button s is operated and the end 3 ot the lever pushed under the end of the lever s, as stated above, the valve cl is removed from its seat and the liquid can enter.

When the bottle is filled to the required height, the push-button s is operated, striking the heel-part of the lever s and pulling the end 19 away from the lever s, when the spring .9 will depress the free end of the lever 5 and close the valve. 7

In Fig. 4, these parts are shown in the position they would occupy when a bottle is being filled. In Fig. 5, is shown the valve closed.

.9 is a set-screw employed to adjust the path through which the lever s can move.

It will be manifest that the operation of closing the valve would also be performed by the floatfas well as by the push-button The operation of my improved form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is as follows: The parts being in the position shown in Fig. 1, and the bottle empty, the tube is inserted into the bottle and connected with the supply reservoir, the end I) of the lever b pushed toward the right, the cam b engaging the lever b thus raising the valve-stem, opening the valve, and permitting the liquid to flow into the bottle around the sides of the floatchamher. As the bottle becomes filled, the liquid encounters the floatf, raises the same, the stem f engaging the end b of the lever 1), raising said end and moving the end 12 and the cam portion 1) of the lever b away from the lever (9 when the pressure of the liquid upon the valve will close the same.

In Fig. 1 the parts are represented as they would be when the device is to be introduced into the bottle, or after the bottle has been filled.

In Fig. 2, the parts are represented in the proper position for the filling of the bottle, with the valve open and the end of the lever 0 locked under the end I) of the lever b In this position the pressure of the liquid upon the valve will not close the same, because this is resisted by the end of the lever b pulling against the end of the lever b". This pull is practically in a radial line from the pivot and does not affect a rotating of the lever 79 on the pivot to release the lever b Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bottle-filling apparatus comprising in its construction a tube provided witha valveseat, a valve mounted therein, a casing connected to said tube, a lever (s) pivoted in said casing, one arm of said lever being connected to said valve, a float mounted in said tube, a bell-crank lever (3 pivoted in said casing, one arm of said lever being connected to said float, the other arm of said lover (5 being arranged to engage the free arm of said lever (s), push-buttons (s (3) arranged to engage the lever (5 on opposite sides of its pivotal point in order to engage and disengage the arm of the lever (8 from the arm of the lever (s), substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my,

name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 21st day of January, A. D. 1895.

PAUL SIMON. \Vitnesses:

JOHN E. WHITooMB, A. D. HARRISON. 

